Math wizard Arthur Benjamin shares three secrets to how to multiply big numbers — without a calculator and faster than even if you had one.
Whiz kid Jonathan Washington showed he could read a barcode in about 15 seconds. Want to learn how? Break the mystery of barcodes by learning what those straight black lines mean, and then learn some practical ways to use them.
- Music:The Billy Nayer Show -- Ham
- Music:Siouxsie and the Banshees -- Cannibal Roses
Google hopes that it can find a creative legal solution that lets it create the library of tomorrow by scanning millions of books. Late Friday, it submitted a new proposal for paying authors, but is it enough to keep the feds from seeing a monopoly in the offing?
Vintage collectibles showcase the peppy plumber through the ages, as commemorated on lunch boxes, tape players and other colorful items. It's all part of a New York City launch party for New Super Mario Bros. Wii that draws the Nintendo faithful.
Scientists in the Galapagos Islands have the incredible luck to witness the birth of a new species of finch with a unique song and physical characteristics.
Datacolor's simple and inexpensive multisided SpyderCube improves upon the gray-card concept by light-years, solving one of the most frustrating picture-taking problems: color balancing.
Jaguar, a Department of Energy machine devoted to civilian research, jumps to the top of the world's most powerful supercomputer list. It's more than 69 percent faster than the second computer on the list, the IBM Roadrunner. Unlike previous DOE list-toppers, Jaguar will be devoted to climate and energy science, not nuclear weapons modeling.
- Music:Sonic Youth -- Bull in the Heather
Have to sleep and get up in 3 hours to pack and ship off to Damascus by car...
- Music:Headscan -- Dead Silver Sky [Biometric]
A handy chart shows side-by-side comparisons of amendments being proposed in the House and Senate to change the Patriot Act. The chart shows proposed changes addressing National Security Letters and the "lone wolf" provisions of the Act.
YouTube and Univision conclude a deal to put all sorts of new long- and short-form Spanish programming on the popular video sharing site. That means shows for Hispanic viewers and more ads for Univision.
- Music:The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
A gigantic telescope with a 100-foot mirror is scheduled to be seeing further and better than any previous telescope. From atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the Thirty Meter Telescope will give us an unprecedented view of the universe and allow astronomers to see exoplanets like never before.
We've been promised self-driving cars since 1939. At long last, they're coming and we'll be the better for it.
A group identifying themselves as "anti-fascist hackers" breaks into the website and e-mail account of controversial British historian and accused Holocaust-denier David Irving, and releases everything to WikiLeaks.
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jwz : Alie & Georgia Present: Ham Daiquiri [+1] - jwz : now that's pretty fucked up right there. [+5]
- wiredtopstories : Google Submits New Proposal for Library of Future [+0]
- wiredtopstories : Makeshift N.Y. Museum Shows Off Mario Oddities [+0]
- wiredtopstories : Birth of a New Species Witnessed by Scientists [+0]
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- wiredtopstories : Simple Yet Impressive SpyderCube Does Color Balancing for You [+0]
- wiredtopstories : Civilian Supercomputer Shatters Nuke Simulator's Speed Record [+0]
- jwz : BigDog Weaponized [+3]
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- jwz : The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu [+2]
- wiredtopstories : Handy Chart Tracks Proposed Amendments to Patriot Act [+0]
- wiredtopstories : YouTube, Univision Are New Best Amigos [+0]
- lafave : monday monkey blog [+0]
- wiredtopstories : Titanic Thirty Meter Telescope Will See Deep Space More Clearly [+0]
- explodingdogrss : explodingdog drawings for Monday November 16th 2009 [+0]
- wiredtopstories : Autonomous Cars Will Make Us Safer [+0]
- wiredtopstories : Hackers Post Private E-mails of Historian and Accused Holocaust Denier [+0]